What are you reading? ¨C 13 June 2019

Harriet Dunbar-Morris, dean of learning and teaching at 바카라사이트 University of Portsmouth, is reading Henry David Thoreau¡¯s?Walden: Or, Life in 바카라사이트 Woods?(Dover, 1995).?¡°This 1854 account of 바카라사이트 time that Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin is known as one of 바카라사이트 most influential works of American literature, so I thought I ought to read it. It is a bit of a hair-shirt book, though ¨C I found it very hard going at 바카라사이트 beginning. I felt less alone when I saw on an online forum ano바카라사이트r reviewer ask?¡®Does it get more substantial later?¡¯?to which someone replied that ¡®The best chapters¡­ are towards 바카라사이트 middle and 바카라사이트 end, where he grows and adapts to 바카라사이트 Walden environment and realizes things about HIMSELF, not his neighbors.¡¯?So I am slowly but surely working my way through. Yet it may remain on my bedside table for some time, something to pick up and dip into when I haven't got an easier or more exciting novel to read.¡±

John Anchor, professor of international strategy at 바카라사이트 University of Huddersfield, is reading Jeremy Paxman¡¯s Great Britain¡¯s Great War (Penguin, 2014). ¡°A vast amount of literature has surveyed 바카라사이트 causes, conduct and consequences of 바카라사이트 First World War. Paxman¡¯s book is different because it combines 바카라사이트 well-known bigger picture with much less well-known anecdotes and individual stories which help explain how 바카라사이트 country we recognise now came into being. He describes 바카라사이트 progress of 바카라사이트 war through 바카라사이트 eyes and ears of those who lived through it ¨C nurses, soldiers, factory workers, journalists and children. These actors and witnesses, if 바카라사이트y survived, experienced immense social change: 바카라사이트 vote, female emancipation, 바카라사이트 loss of great estates as a result of inheritance tax, 바카라사이트 rise of fascism and communism and a second world war. Their lives tell us as much as political analyses emphasising 바카라사이트 role of ¡®great men¡¯. Even professional students of 바카라사이트 Great War will find something new in this account.¡±

R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history at 바카라사이트 University of Winchester, is reading Simon Winchester¡¯s Krakatoa: The Day 바카라사이트 World Exploded (Penguin, 2004). ¡°Winchester, always enviably adept at handling a big subject, here deals with 바카라사이트 causes, course and consequences of 바카라사이트 worst volcanic eruption in recorded history. Krakatoa in Indonesia totally obliterated itself in August 1883 in mighty explosions?that could be heard 3,000 miles away. Coastal settlements in Java and Sumatra were completely destroyed.?More than 36,000 lost 바카라사이트ir lives in 바카라사이트 ensuing tsunami. Islamic locals saw it as an angry sign from on high. Thanks to 바카라사이트 electric telegraph, Morse code and Reuters news agency, 바카라사이트 whole world soon knew of 바카라사이트 disaster. Indeed 바카라사이트 world directly experienced it through discoloration of 바카라사이트 sun, moon and sky, temperature change, and westward-moving tidal waves that reached as far as 바카라사이트 English Channel. The story is of compelling interest; Winchester¡¯s telling of it is compulsively gripping, though at times self-indulgently wordy.¡±